“One of Europe’s top data privacy watchdogs sided with Apple Inc. and other technology firms opposing calls from security services for “backdoors” to gadgets such as iPhones and tablets to help them fight terrorists,” Stephanie Bodoni and Gaspard Sebag report for Bloomberg.
“It ‘could create a free pass’ for malevolent groups such as cyber-criminals, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of France’s data privacy authority CNIL, told journalists at a press conference in Paris Friday,” Bodoni and Sebag report. “‘The consequence could be the weakening of people’s personal security,’ [she said].”
Bodoni and Sebag report, “‘There are many other ways to obtain information than by installing a backdoor,’ said Falque-Pierrotin, who also heads a panel of privacy officials from across the 28-nation European Union.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Évidemment.
Zdziarski’s blog is consistently very informative on this topic and his most recent entry is very pertinent to this story. He also notes how the FBI have not been very good at keeping secrets in the past and that the phone forensic tool that he created for the FBI has been used inappropriately and allowed to proliferate in unauthorised and undesirable ways.
http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6043
Only politicians and government hacks (sorry, I repeated myself) can come up with these insane ideas that are not only bad but really, really bad. Even folks in government who know what they are doing, like Isabelle Falque-Pterrotin in France, know that backdoors are a terrible ideas.
Politicians and lawyers, if they all vanished one morning, the world would be a much better place. Of course, hell would be overcrowded.
This should inspire FIB: ““There are many other ways to obtain information than by installing a backdoor,” said Falque-Pierrotin, who also heads a panel of privacy officials from across the 28-nation European Union”
FIB really needs to approach medical doctors to develop a way to extract information from the dead. They can’t look themselves in the mirror or others in the eye if they leave this stone unturned.
Make Reanimation Of The Dead Legal In The USA!
It’s legal in Canada!
https://www.youtube.com/user/lemurbouy
Reanimation of the dead is a total fiction. Brain function deteriorates rapidly, and without blood flow neurons and their interconnections wither, erasing memories for good. That’s why zombies don’t speak, reason, or remember, but only hunger for the brains of the living.
Regardless, the FBI are a fast set and will try anything. As Road Warrior intimated, they might invoke the All Writs Act to compel doctors to divulge protected medical data obtained prior to a patient’s death, and even demand that doctors attempt to resurrect a patient; and absent that, perform research to determine how to recover mental patterns before they fade with the onset of rigor mortis.
All of it is impossibly absurd, of course—and the FBI are stupid to have overlooked the more obvious solution, spiritualism. Just get a talented medium to ask the dead what happened. That solves a lot of problems, and it’s cheap—just hold hands around a table in a darkened room. If the dead won’t talk, threaten them with…well, I guess the FBI needs to work on that angle.